On 12/2/05, Jordan Peacock <hewhocutsdown at gmail.com> wrote: > I'm new to the group/list/state/country, having moved to Minneapolis > from Kuwait last night. There's a statement I don't hear every day. Welcome! > I'm Canadian and my wife's a local here, and > I'll be wanting to build a computer soon. Apart from your Best > Buy/Dell/etc, do you have any independant computer sales companies, or > wholesale parts or just your preferred places for hardware shopping in > and around the twin cities? Tran Micro and General Nanosystems are good places to start. Both are located on University Ave in St. Paul. If you need a wider selection, Microcenter over in St. Louis Park has just about everything. There's plenty of mom and pop shops around, but those are the biggies. -Brian